A large, fleshy fungus that is dark reddish brown found on sandy soil in scattered or small tropps in coniferous woodland with Pine.
Localised, from late Summer till Autumn.
Occasional, late summer to autumn scattered or in small trooping groups on sandy soil in coniferous woods; especially with pine.
Initially hemispherical then campanulate or bluntly umbonate, dark reddish brown, smooth, fine radiating, scaly fibrils, inrolled margin, which lasts a long time.
Cap flesh is thin and white, stem flesh white, full and stuffed. Odour not distinctive, taste - bitter.
Emarginate, edges slightly crenated, creamy white, brownish with a pinkish tinge with age, crowded.
More or less equal or tapering at the base, whitish at the apex then concolorous with the cap, becomes spotted brown where bruised, smooth, fibrous lined.
Inedible.
